Comments on: Microsoft entering the mobile browsing market too

By: Adam Messinger

Adam Messinger — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:34:29 +0000

I wonder if this thing takes 25MB like IE7 does. Not exactly light weight or “mobile”.

The actual rendering engine for IE is only a fraction of that program’s disk footprint. Assuming IE7 works the same as previous versions in this regard, the rendering engine is contained in the mshtml.dll file. The rest of the code is user-level features, system services, and (of course) OS tie-ins and patches.

By: GT500

GT500 — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:34:54 +0000

Originally posted by IceArdor:

I wonder if this thing takes 25MB like IE7 does. Not exactly light weight or “mobile”.

From what I’ve heard, it won’t have the full rendering engine in it. In theory, it will take up only a tiny fraction of the space that IE7 does.

By: IceArdor

IceArdor — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:22:27 +0000

I wonder if this thing takes 25MB like IE7 does. Not exactly light weight or “mobile”.

By: kL

kL — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:57:22 +0000

It doesn’t eliminate horizontal scrolling. Demo explains that it just sends screenshot of the page using lossy image compression.

By: Romain

Romain — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:14:10 +0000

From Microsoft « What is Deepfish » page:

A familiar look and feel of web pages on mobile as seen on desktop.

It may be good to have pages that look the same on mobile and desktop, but I think that it’s boring to always scroll from left to right and right to left in order to read a text that is wider than the viewport…

Nevertheless, I really like the UI.

By: legalalien

legalalien — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:59:57 +0000

Looks like it's not a true browser, but a viewer like Picsel Browser or Bitstream's Thunderhawk

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:58:56 +0000

GT500, from their webpage description, it sounds like it will only work on Windows Mobile.

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:01:23 +0000

According to Neowin's article it may become cross-platform.

By: Muzammil

Muzammil — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:33:29 +0000

the blue fish looks pretty cool.

By: DrLaunch

DrLaunch — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:30:04 +0000

I bet it will only work on Windows Mobile. And there’s something about it that smells fishy (pun intended).

By: GT500

GT500 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:34:19 +0000

Microsoft must have decided that the mobile platform was too secure.

I wonder if this is going to be a Windows Mobile only kind of thing, or if it will work on various other mobile platforms…